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May 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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From the heavily fortified, well-protected bunker that is the EIB Southern Command, a location Joe Biden has not yet revealed.
I am Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
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That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
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Yesterday in Washington, after President Obama went out and made that Castro-like speech that never ended, defending his position on closing Guantanamo Bay and turning terrorists loose or whatever he's going to do with them, he went back to the White House and had a party, so to speak, a greeting ceremony for the world champion Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were invited to the White House after their last Super Bowl win by George W. Bush.
Obama invited them to show up yesterday since they're this year's Super Bowl winners and think they were a little different this time around.
The Steelers players, the last time they were there, showed up in the very appropriate coat and tie.
Most of them did.
This year, they were told not to wear coats and ties, that there was a surprise waiting for them.
So they all showed up in slacks and golf shirts.
And when they got there, Obama put them to work, stuffing boxes of goodies to be sent to troops overseas, which is fine and dandy.
The Steelers were there for about four hours.
Obama was presented with an official Steelers jersey, home jersey with the number 44 on it.
It's just a tough picture to look at because I'm, as you know, a Steelers fan.
It was bad enough a year ago during the campaign where they gave Obama a Steelers jersey with the number one on it.
So he's got two of them now given to him by the team.
But I happen to note something.
See, I am a student of the NFL.
They did not give him locker room jerseys.
They might be exact jerseys.
I mean, the same material, the same price.
But you Steelers fans, I'm sure you know, if you've gone out and bought the real thing, says NFL equipment on it on field in the label down the lower left.
You'll notice when you look at the sleeves that it's not like the jerseys the Steelers wear on the field.
The locker room jerseys in almost every case in the National Football League are different than what they sell retail.
It's the same material.
It's the same design.
You would never notice it unless you were a tour student.
And I've noticed that they are not locker room jerseys that Obama got.
I can't explain to you why.
I mean, I could, I could try, but it has to do with the sleeves and the stripes and how the sleeves are sewn on.
They're sewn on differently in the locker room jersey, the game day jersey, than the ones that you buy retail.
Just trust me on this.
I know it.
It's irrelevant to anything.
I'm just showing off with how much I know.
But there was an added story about the Steelers showing up yesterday that NBC, I can't believe that NBC reported this.
Thursday, yesterday, was supposed to be the highlight of the year for more than 100 kindergartners from Stafford County, Virginia.
They got up early and they took a chartered bus to the White House for a school field trip.
But when they got there, all of the five-year-olds on the bus they all got was a lesson in disappointment.
The buses from Conway Elementary arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a little later than planned and they got locked out.
Obama told the kindergartners to go home.
Five-year-old Cameron Stein said, Yeah, we were going to the White House, but we couldn't get in.
I felt so sad.
I thought you're crying.
Parents say that they were just 10 minutes late for their scheduled tour of the White House.
Screw all officials say that the White House staff said they needed to get ready for the president's event with the Pittsburgh Steelers so the kids couldn't come in.
So a long-planned field trip from a suburban Washington school broomed by the Obama White House.
What about the children?
Can you the effect of this on these children for the rest of their lives?
Is nobody thinking about this?
These kids, how long had they been looking forward to ever going to go to the White House?
They were going to get a tour.
They were maybe going to meet President Obama and historic figure.
And they show up and they're only 10 minutes late and the mean guards at the gate won't let them in because the Steelers are in there putting gift packages together to send military troops overseas.
I think they should have let the kids in and helped the Steelers.
What a double whammy for Obama.
Let those kids in.
They get to meet the Steelers.
The parents get to meet the Steelers.
They have to help them out putting care packages together for the troops.
But no!
The buses were sent away with the little children in tears.
And I, my friends, the long-term effects of this might be incalculable.
I know this because I have a story.
Before giving the details of this story, let me ask all of you who have graduated from college.
Now, I cannot say that.
I have not.
But I can include myself as a high school graduate in this.
How many of you, when you graduated college, were optimistic?
How many of you thought, finally, I'm getting out there.
Here's a chance.
This is my chance.
You probably attended your commencement where the commencement speaker told you that you were the future, that you had to go out there and continue the traditions.
Yeah, you might have been scared and you might have been challenging, finding a job and so forth, first time on your own, theoretically.
But I mean, I want you to really think about how much you opt.
I couldn't wait till I got out of school.
To me, that was freedom.
I couldn't wait to get out on my own.
There was an America out there.
There was my place in it out there.
There was my opportunity waiting out there.
That opportunity had knocked and knocked and knocked, and I was going to open the door.
My fortune, whatever it was to be, was out there.
I couldn't wait to get out there.
The last thing I was when I got out of school was depressed.
I wanted to throw a party because I got out.
And most of the people I knew my age when they got out of college looked at it the same way.
Some of them couldn't face it, so they went to grad school.
Some didn't know what they wanted to do, so they went to grad school and became teachers' assistants, but they still were excited about having done it.
Now, contrast, no doubt, the way you felt getting out of school with this story from the Associated Press today.
This is why I worry about the long-term effects of those five-year-olds.
They got thrown away from the White House yesterday because the Steelers were there.
Stress over grades, financial worries, trouble sleeping, feeling hopeless.
So much for those carefree college days.
The vast majority of college students are feeling stressed these days, and significant numbers are at risk of depression, according to an AP MTV poll.
85% of the students reported feeling stress in their daily lives in recent months with worries about grades, scruple work, money, and relationships, the big culprits.
Wow.
Did you worry about grades when you were about graduate?
When you were in college, did you worry about grades?
Did you worry about getting your schoolwork done?
Yeah, I did too.
I hated it.
Did you worry about the money you were going to make first time on your own?
Did you worry about that?
And did you have problems with relationships?
Hello, Universal.
This happens to virtually everybody.
And yet in the AP, why, this is groundbreaking.
This is unique.
85% of the students, stress, worries about grades, scruple work, money, and relationships.
At the same time, 42% said that they had felt down, depressed, or hopeless several days during the past two weeks.
And 13% showed signs of being at risk for at least mild clinical depression based on the students' answers to a series of questions that medical practitioners use to diagnose depressive illness.
The students complained of trouble sleeping, having little energy, feeling down or hopeless.
Most had not gotten professional help.
11% had had thoughts that they'd be better off dead.
11% thought about hurting themselves.
Mental health disorders like depression typically begin relatively early in life.
According to doctors, college is a natural time for symptoms to emerge.
I simply am asking you to go back and remember your own college graduation.
And does any of this sound familiar?
You wanted to kill yourself?
You wanted to hurt yourself?
You were despondent to the point of needing to go to a psychiatrist?
Yeah, I mean, there were some people that, I mean, but there always have been, but this is being stress over grades.
College students, stressed, depressed, poll says.
42% down, depressed, or hopeless.
In the time of hope and change, in the time of hope and change, in the time of hope and change, 42% have zero hope.
The only change is that they're in worse shape than they were before they went into college.
What explains this?
What is it that explains this?
What happened to the traditional attitude getting out of college?
There's a world out there.
There's my place in it.
And I can't wait to get started.
I can't wait to get away from my own home.
I want to make my own life.
I can't wait to get out there and have my own responsibility.
I can't wait to get away from people telling me what I can and can't do.
Where is all this coming from?
Where's this frightened fear coming from?
I, ladies and gentlemen, have at least part of the answer.
I would say that the people in this poll, these college students in this poll, have more than likely been to their share of self-esteem classes.
There have been self-esteem curricula.
They have been told how wonderful they are.
They have been told how special they are.
They have been told that nothing is their fault.
That something happens, it's either George Bush's fault or somebody else's fault.
All of this self-esteem, they've had conflict resolution classes.
Whenever they have a disagreement or arguing with somebody, they know how to deal with it, conflict resolution.
So what in the world, I mean, they have been trained, according to the experts, to have nothing but joy and bliss as the attitudes they take into the real world after graduating from these institutions of higher learning, but they're coming out of their mental cases.
They're coming out of there with linguine for spines.
It is precisely because of all this self-esteem rotgut, the focus on how you feel, not on what you're learning, not on what you're accomplishing, Not on what you're learning about how to think.
No, this is about how you feel each and every.
And I'm going to tell you, most people who are encouraged to do nothing but be self-absorbed in how they feel are going to conclude they feel rotten most of the time.
So more liberalism, designed with good intentions to produce healthy and vibrant, non-violent, walking little robots, is instead producing head cases graduating from college with a shocking 13 to 14 percent who have considered killing themselves or harming themselves.
And the story asks, how can this be?
And of course, it's the tumultuous last eight years, the war in Iraq, the war on terror, the unsettled economic circumstances.
But then we have Obama, hope and change.
This was supposed to change everybody who had attitudes of pessimism like this into optimistic unifiers.
Why, we were going to have utopia out there.
So how's that hope and change working for these college graduates?
Doesn't seem to me hope and change is working.
And so, what lifetime scars have been imprinted on the impressionable skulls full of mush of the five-year-old kindergartens turned away from the White House yesterday on their field trip, even though it was scheduled, because they were 10 minutes late.
They were not allowed in because the Steelers were there.
Obama said to the five-year-olds, you and your parents too.
They go back and they're in tears.
They don't understand it.
It was a field trip planned weeks ago.
The scars of this will be permanent.
They're five years old.
My guess is they're going to be told that the President George W. Bush will be back.
Would you relax in there?
How is that my favorite part in So Very Hard to Go by Tower Power?
And I just had to listen to it.
All right.
No, I have not meant to tease you.
It is time to legalize counterfeiting.
Harold Witcoff with this opinion piece at the AmericanThinker.com today.
Many Americans today believe certain illegal vices in our society should be decriminalized, taxed, and regulated.
The most popular, of course, marijuana smoking, prostitution, and all forms of gambling.
The proponents for decriminalization believe the new tax revenues produced would help support screws, healthcare, and the impoverished, would also ease the pain of other taxpayers and reduce the deficit.
They also believe that transgressions such as these will take place no matter what, but if properly regulated, they'd be safer for society in general.
It'd be a win-win situation.
Unfortunately, when it comes to lowering taxes and helping it downtrodden, the best-laid government plans seem to fall short of expectations.
However, there is one vice, one small, illegal indiscretion that, if decriminalized, would solve all of our problems.
The United States needs to legalize the victimless crime known as counterfeiting.
Once legalized, counterfeiting would be for everyone.
This could be accomplished by making Federal Reserve note paper complete with silk threads, watermarks, etc., available to the public.
With the correct paper, most computers with the right software would have no trouble replicating U.S. currency.
If a household didn't have a computer, special over-to-counter counterfeit kits could be made available with instructions in both English and Spanish.
Once in place, universal counterfeiting would prove to be the ultimate stimulus package for the economy.
Employees would always have enough money.
They would never ever have to go on strike.
Citizens would have no trouble paying their mortgages and they would never face foreclosure.
Everyone would gladly pay his or her taxes, and there would be no need even to have an IRS.
Free market consumerism would return with a flourish.
People would purchase whatever they wanted.
Stores would only have to worry about having enough merchandise on hand.
Stores could charge a consumer whatever they wanted.
The consumer could still afford it.
Every shopping day would be like the day after Thanksgiving and the day before Christmas.
Once legalized, counterfeiting would still have to be regulated.
Parity and fairness would dictate that families earning over $250,000 would only be allowed to print $1, $2, $5, and $10 denominations.
Families with combined incomes of less than $250,000 could print $20 and $50 bills.
The unemployed could print $100 bills.
And Acorn workers and UAW members would be entitled to counterfeit a new denomination, something even larger than the $100 bill, whatever they wanted it to be, with the picture of President Obama on one side.
Universal counterfeiting could be the entitlement program that ends all other entitlement programs and once and for all sets everybody free.
We wouldn't have any more arguments about the minimum wage.
There wouldn't be a minimum wage.
You could decide how much you want to earn and go print it at home.
You could decide how much you wanted to pay for health care and it wouldn't matter what it cost because you could print whatever it cost.
You could go out, you wouldn't have to worry about buying one of these little putt-putt cars.
You could go out and buy as many cars as you want and the insurance and the house with enough garages to house them all as long as you could print enough money to go buy all of this.
It is time to stand up and tell our legislators that we want universal counterfeiting.
Now we know what they're going to say.
Probably what you're saying now.
What do you mean you can't just go out print money like this?
To which the answer is, why not, Mr. Congressman?
You're doing it.
We'll be back.
Open Line Friday.
How did I know?
That's the easiest thing in the world.
Every time I walk through there, the only word I hear is Jessica.
800-282-2882, Open Line Friday.
Jerry in Cleveland, you're next.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I wanted to tell you, one of my favorite things about your program is listening to you talk about the NFL and your love for football because I share it, and I really do enjoy it.
And one of my favorite issues is when you talk about and you share with us your travel experience and how you tie it in with football or golf or whatever.
And that is, I must say, I live vicariously through you when you tell us those stories because I would think that would be like the most fun thing to do is to get up and fly to a game and fly home.
You know, it is.
I have to tell you, it is.
I mean, my life is blessed.
That's why these kids coming out of college being depressed irritates me.
There's no reason for it.
If they're going to be depressed at something, be depressed at Obama, who is the one that's taking away some opportunity, but it's still out there.
So I'm glad to hear you say this because when I do talk about those things, I've got these nattering nabobs in the audience that send me emails that say, stick to the issues, golfer.
We don't care about football.
If you want to talk about that, talk about it on Friday.
Well, it's Friday, so you've called and we're going to talk about it.
Rush, as you well know, if you would listen, and I've learned one of the hardest things I've learned in life is to listen to that voice inside you, and I believe it's there for a reason.
But there's people around you that just want to live, you know, your life for you and not worry, you know, for them and not you.
And, you know, and that's perfectly right.
I've been, for example, I have been number, I have the most listened-to radio talk show here for 18 of the last 20 years.
And do you know, do you know, Jerry, there are still people who tell me I don't know how to do it.
And I should not do this, or I should do that, or I should go out and have more guests, or I should go do more speeches, or what have you.
You're exactly right.
But this happens, Jerry.
I want you to understand.
It happens to everybody who makes what they do look easy.
Look at all of the people who can't play baseball telling people who can what they have to do.
It's just human nature, and you have to just learn to deal with it.
Well, exactly.
And that's one of the, and I have, and like I said, but your stories and your experiences, they're an important part of this program.
It doesn't have to do with what you breathe in the morning.
And I know in your heart, you know that, and that's why you continue to share.
One quick question specifically.
In the first hour when you were giving the Obama and the NFL, you know, when you were, I can't think of a word right now.
Well, when I was telling first-year coaches to blame previous coaches and owners, and if they come out of the shoot 0-4, like Obama's blaming Bush.
Yeah, when you were given that football analogy, I happened to be driving by Cleveland Brown Stadium in the adjacent air strip.
And that's why I'm like, I got to call him and ask him what it's like to go see a football game because I remember you coming up here in Cleveland and flying in for the Steeler game.
And that's really why I called.
And I just, if you could share a little bit with us, you know, what's the specifics?
Are you invited?
Do you go?
I mean, verbally take me through that day with you.
And that's what I want to know.
Well, you know, I'm very old-fashioned.
My parents raised me long ago, don't invite yourself anywhere.
And I don't.
It has stuck with me.
Don't tell anybody.
Because if somebody wants you there, they'll ask you.
So don't invite yourself anywhere.
But with this radio show, my love of the NFL has become so well known that I get my share of invitations.
I don't have to ask.
Now, one of my good friends is Al Michaels, who does play-by-play for NBC on Sunday night football.
And he out of the blue one day suggested, you know, you ought to come to one of the games.
You know, I'm inside going, oh, man, I'm like you would be.
Oh, I got it.
Jerry.
But on the outside, I'm cool.
I'm saying, well, yeah, it sounds all right.
Let me think about this.
Logistics might be a problem, blah, blah, blah.
And he was the one who invited me to go into Cleveland.
He knows I love the Steelers.
So I flew.
We actually flew on Saturday afternoon, or yeah, Saturday afternoon about 4 o'clock.
We made the decision to go late, and NBC had the whole Ritz Carlton locked down.
There was not a hotel room to be found.
The Steelers were staying out in Beechwood at the Hilton.
And, you know, Beechwood's a place you only want to go there if you have to.
Yeah, I go past there about four times every day.
All right.
All right.
So that's where the Steelers stay.
The Steelers stayed at Beechwood Hilton.
I want to stay there, but Al had to go out there.
I took Al with me.
And when we got off the plane, Al went straight to the Beachwood Hilton because he had his production meeting with the Steelers.
And interestingly, it was at that meeting, Jerry, where Rothlessberger told Al that he had a separated shoulder.
And nobody in the media knew it.
It caused a firestorm the next week.
And Al was just sitting there conducting a production meeting.
And Rothlessberger volunteered the information.
He told me all this.
We had dinner later that night.
So anyway, he had a car pick him up.
We went to the Lakefront Airport there.
The people at the Ritz-Carlton, they did some dancing and they got me in a closet.
I mean, the hotel was booked.
And it wasn't until that week.
You know, Steelers week's big week in Cleveland.
Yeah, I wish I could win one sometime.
It'd be even bigger.
Go ahead.
Exactly right.
So checked in there.
And not a closet.
It's just a small, you know, regular room.
And we went to dinner in the hotel restaurant that night.
And Al was telling me about the production meeting he had with the Steelers because I'm a big Steelers fan.
And we're just having a good time.
Got up the next day, watched football in the closet in the room that we had.
Al had to go to the stadium a couple hours before we did, but they sent a van to pick us up.
Van took us right to the player entrance or all the teams, the officials and so forth underground.
Went out on the field with Al before they got.
I mean, this is, you know, this is, I feel like a five-year-old when I get to do this stuff.
I mean, this is, this is, you're exactly right.
I mean, I pinch myself every time I get to do this stuff.
I just absolutely love it.
And the fans in the sidelines there in the stands were just great.
There was a weather babe from one of the TV stations who came up and was very nice.
I'm having a metal block on her name.
But what was funny, the people at the hotel apparently somehow, you know, I had said on the air that I'm going to Cleveland.
Yeah, I knew that.
Right.
But I didn't say the hotel, and I never check in under my real name.
But people had assumed there were about 10 or 12 people lingering outside the hotel on Sunday afternoon before the game, figuring I was there.
And the security people at the hotel were wise enough to see it.
I didn't take my security people because nobody knew I was going at a specific location.
The security guy comes up and says, look, we'd be glad to walk you out of here.
There's some nice people down there.
They've got your books.
And I said, no, you can accompany me.
Fine, but I'll be glad to sign the books.
Then the security guy says, what the hell are you doing in this room?
I said, wow, they did the best they could getting us in here.
I mean, the hotel sold out.
This is the best they could do.
So then we went to the game, and it was about the middle of the Fourth quarter that I told Al, and we had some yucks with John Little John Madden story before the game up in the booth.
Madden's getting his final makeup touch-up, and it's hot as hell.
The humidity is up, and the lights in the booth, and so forth.
He's got on a coat and tie, and he gets out of the chair.
He's walking to get something to drink, and he says, This is what's great about radio.
You don't have to guck up your face with this gunk.
And his buddy John Robinson, he always took with him the coach of the Rams, and his high school friend was up there.
So it's obviously a great time.
Middle of the fourth quarter, I said, I want to leave.
I want to get a head start on the crowd getting out of here.
I want to get the airport.
I've got direct TV on the airplane, so you'll watch the rest of the game getting out and getting home because they had to go to work the next day, which was Monday.
But that's, you know, did it in Dallas, went to a Dallas game in December, the Giants.
A couple Steelers games.
But no, I wait till I'm invited.
Well, I'll tell you, and I thank you sincerely for sharing those stories and everything because it means a lot to me personally because I can tell your passion and it's not fake and it's very genuine.
And I just wanted to call and get the details.
And I live five minutes from Beachwood.
That's why I'm sitting here laughing and I could see all this.
You live in Beachwood or you drive by it?
No, I live about five minutes up the road from Beachwood.
Yeah, and I'm there.
But you're not actually in it.
No, sir.
Yeah, okay.
But God bless you, and thank you so much for sharing and continued success, Rob.
All right.
Thank you, Jerry.
I appreciate it.
We've got to take a brief time out here.
No, I'm teasing about Beachwood.
I just, the way I've, I never heard of Beachwood, Ohio, until I learned that's where the Steelers are staying because I asked, you know, Al, we're landing in Cleveland on Saturday afternoon, and he's got a car to take him to the Steelers Hotel.
I think the Steelers have a deal with Hilton.
I think they stay in Hilton's wherever they travel.
I know they stay in the Hilton the night before the game at home.
So he said, I said, well, where's their hotel?
He says, it's East Overy from here.
It's like 35.
No, their fans figure this out.
They've got security outdoors.
And there's multiple Hiltons in a town anyway, Dawn.
Stick to the kids' pictures.
I'll do the show.
You talk about the kids' pictures.
So anyway, he said, yeah, there are hotels out.
It's in East Overy.
It's like a half hour from us.
Where is it?
He said, Beachwood.
I never heard of Beachwood.
So when I got to the hotel, I fired up the computer and I Google mapped it.
You know, and it's Cleveland suburb.
And I looked at Beachwood Hilton, and I got the picture of it.
And it looks, well, never mind.
It's all fun.
I love all this stuff.
Don't misunderstand.
And it was the first time I've been to Cleveland since I worked in Pittsburgh in the early 70s.
We'll be right back after this.
I just got a great email here, folks.
You know, during the conversation with Jerry, when I described going to all these football games, I said, it makes me feel like a five-year-old.
So I got an email note here from Christopher Langston.
Next time, Al Michael, if you really want to feel like a five-year-old, next time Al Michaels asks you to an event like that, show up 10 minutes late and have him turn you away.
Then you can honestly say you feel like a five-year-old.
Just like what happened to the five-year-olds at the White House when they got turned away because they were 10 minutes late for their tour because the Steelers were there.
Here's Daniel.
That was yesterday.
Daniel in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hi.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Let's talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I work every day, so I don't normally get to cost.
I'm a 24-7 customer, and I have a bone to pick with you.
Yeah?
I believe that you are responsible for me not getting into Yale medical school.
And the reason I say this is because this was last fall during the beginning of the whole class envy warfare and all that stuff.
And I was up there during my interview.
It went well.
It was the end.
We were getting off buddy buddy.
And they started talking about the Patriots.
And I guess they were bitter about Brady hurt or something.
So then one of the things, wait, hold on, hold it, hold it.
You're talking fast.
I want to keep up with you here.
You're conducting your interview to get into Yale Medical School.
Is that right?
And during the interview, they, the Yale people, are talking to you about the New England Patriots?
Yes, sir.
Okay, now continue from there.
Okay, so they started talking about the Patriots, and then one of them piped up and said how she doesn't like it, how they get paid so much money to do something they love.
So having listened to your show for a long time, I just, without saying, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
Wait, the people at Yale Medical School interviewing you for admission first said they were upset about Tom Brady being injured.
Yes, sir.
And then they were bitter about that.
And then one of them piped up and said how she doesn't like it, how the football players get paid so much money to do something they love.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
And so I said, is everyone supposed to hate their jobs?
And I didn't really get a response.
And the interview ended quite quickly.
And I haven't really heard from them since.
And so I'm kind of blaming you on this one.
No, no, no.
You are looking at this the wrong way.
This is one of these things you're going to look back on in your life and thank me for.
Why are you applying to Yale Medical School anyway?
All they're going to teach you to do is how to take Medicare checks and reduce your salary.
Well, I figure it's close enough to the AIG houses I can go visit them, too.
But that still was a great response.
So you got this woman who is part of the admissions team or the interview team complaining and moaning of people who get paid so much because they're doing what they love.
Yes.
And you said, what are we supposed to do?
Do something we hate to earn a lot of money?
Yes.
Because, see, her definition of work is doing something you don't like.
Everyone's supposed to hate it.
And this is the problem with most people.
Most people ought to strive to find the work that is what they love, so it isn't work.
And that's when you'll do it the best you can.
That's when you will earn the most that's possible, whatever is possible in your field.
Look at so that you didn't hear from them.
Did you apply to any other medical school?
Yeah, I've already accepted an offer to another school that I probably shouldn't mention lest they be spying.
Yeah, that's sad to say.
It's sad as that I have to agree with you here.
But is it close to home anyway?
Yes, sir, it is.
Okay, well, yeah, that's fine.
I would say that the medical school you're going to, it's going to be close here.
And the medical school you're going to is probably a better end result for you anyway.
You go to an Ivy League medical school in the day and age of Obama, and the primary education you're going to get is how to deal with Medicare patients and how to get used to the government reducing your compensation every year for every year that you practice.
And it's, I mean, Obama said he's going to squeeze the doctors.
What kind of doctor do you want to be?
Daniel?
We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
Not too sure.
I've always liked orthopedics, but we'll see.
So right now you're just generating medical school with the intent of being a GP.
Well, we'll see.
I'd like to be an orthopedist, so that's what I'm striving for right now.
To be an orthopedist.
Aha.
Now, an orthopedist, that's interesting because in an orthopedist, if you are lucky, you can end up having your own practice with primarily having athletes as your clients, and Obama's never going to squeeze athletes or actors or Hollywood people.
So they will have the money.
You will be able to charge them confiscatory rates.
Absolutely.
Well, that's well done.
But I don't know how greedy I want to be.
I should probably give back at some point.
Well, it's not greed.
This is not greed.
This isn't.
I am so happy you're called.
Are you called?
This is an opportunity to get your mind right.
A, it was a mistake to apply to Yale Medical.
I helped you out not even knowing I was helping.
Avoid that disaster.
And now you're thinking that earning a living is greed.
This is how liberalism just sweeps guilt all over every, it's called self-interest.
The greed, let me be serious for a moment.
The greed in our country today is in the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and the Oval Office.
If there is greed in this country, if there are, and Sacramento, California, state houses around the country, if there is greed, who are people who can't get enough and who don't earn a dime of it, but take it from other people and it's never enough, government.
Back in a moment.
Remember, folks, Monday is not just Memorial Day.
Monday is also 40 days and 40 nights away from Obama's birthday.
Celebrate that, too.
One hour to go on Open Line Friday.
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